failure to boot

[Gerhard H. W. May]

I had problems booting my machine in FC3.

James Wilkinson helped me to get it started by disabling pcmcia:

>> One [way] is to go into /etc/modprobe.conf
>> and change the yenta-socket lines to
>> install yenta-socket /bin/true
>> (or add one of those lines if yenta-socket isn't mentioned).

That worked, but of course my wireless cardbus card won't work now. 
James suggested:

> Speaking of which, upgrades should be your next priority. There's a new
> kernel out, which might have fixed the PCMCIA problem. And there are
> lots of other upgrades, too.
>
> And then, if that doesn't help, can you report your problems to
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com ?

I have downloaded and installed all available updates (using up2date), 
and the machine still works, as before (I was not certain that this 
would be the case). I then edited /etc/modprobe.conf back to its 
original state (deleted 'install yenta-socket /bin/true') and restarted 
the machine. This time I received a message regarding a 'kernel panic', 
and when I switched 'rhgb quite' off again it became clear that the 
process hung in some loop, with the same message being printed 
constantly. It was something about X11 trying to access some hardware 
(should I try and repeat that and copy down the message?). Clearly, 
enabling pcmcia is still not a great idea. Would this now qualify as 
the kind of problem I should report at bugzilla?

Thanks.

Gerhard (today without signature)